Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-22
NCONSTANT AND FRAIL.
Love for an Ex-Wife Lands an Ore
Teamster in Jail.

Since old mother Eve roped Adam up
against the apple tree, her daughters have
kept up their ancestors reputation OF al
Turing good men to their ruin. A yearorso
ago, a handwriting man named Westlake
lived happily with a wife on rhe outskirts
| OF Butte. The wife was good looking and,
as are many of her sex when endowed that
way, fond of the attentions of men. West
lake grew jealous, and after INDUCING in too
| much of Butte's best whisky, came home
one night and began abusing her shameful
~, winding up by throwing her from the
second story balcony OF their residence. the
fall nearly killing her. She had him ar
rested for attempt at murder, and he lay in
the County Jail for six months. At the end
of this time she relented, and by some
means procured his release. But her fond
ness for other men and his appetite for
strong. drink soon caused another out
break, and she applied for and procured a
divorce.
Being free, she became attached to and
married a Frenchman named Louis Jane
reaux. This gentleman was all that man
could be for a time, but her appetite Tor
change wal whetted and poor Janereaux
got the bounce. Westlake was taken back,
and a divorre applied for from the French
man. Pending the action of the courts she
for the Second time got tired OF Westlake's
careeses, and returned to her Gallo lover.
This brings their history down to the
present week. Last Monday night West.
lake, being in one OF his periodical fits OF
despondency, brought on by the
ickleness and Inconsistency OF the
woman who had so many times
vowed her undying love for him, got
loaded, and proceeded out the Meaderville
road to the residence of his fair but frail
ex-wife and the god-like Louis. Not being
admitted as quickly as such an old
tt66e s 9uadinntta n Ni shesp sld1ed hsXs 6ssn, he s..h broke r1s
claimed himself boss of the ranch. jake
veaux resisted and got thumped; Mrs.
Janeveaux likewise. During the rumpus
the Frenchman got hold OF a six-shooter
and fired four shots at the disturber of his
connubial bliss, one, OF them, if it had been
fired at q sober man would have settled
the business, hitting Westlake's coat-but-
ton, glanced and tearing a hole through
both coats and vest, lodged in his under
clothing, without doing. further damage.
Westlake, thinking he had "done up"t h
outfit in good shape, or probably the gun
play had q SOLDERING effect, returned home,
business as if nothing had happened.
Mrs. Ja~nereaux, at an early hour Tues
day morning, appeared before Justice Lip
pincott and swore out a warrant against
Westlake, charging him with burglary"
assault and battery and ''attempt to
kill" The warrant was placed in the hands
Of Sheriff Lloyd, who arrested him at noon
as he was IN his way to the Old
Lexington mill with a load of ore from the
Little Nina mine. Appearing before Justice
Lippincott he was remanded to the custody
of the Sheriff under $500 bonds until
yesterday. At the hearing yesterday after
he was held in $4,000, on two charg-
es, to keep the peace for one year, the hear
ing on the others being postponed until
Saturday at 2 o'clock. Not being able to
give bond, he reposes on thedowny couches
furnished by the county at the Jail, while
the woman who has caused him all his
basks in the smiles OF her badly
disfigured husband.